Russia-NATO Update is a review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest news on Russia-NATO relations from the Russian and East European media.
Russian PM Medvedev: Georgia's Membership In NATO Would Be An Absolutely Irresponsible Position And A Thre...

Interviewed by Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV channel, Sheikh Omar Nofal, a judge in Gaza's shari'a appeals court extolled the six virtues of martyrdom, asking: "How can anyone cling to this world after hearing all of these great rewards?" Nofal said that Jihad is "an individual duty incumben...

On August 12, 2018, Fatah's official Facebook page posted a photo of Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto and information about him. Okamoto was one of three terrorists, members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), who carried out an attack in Israel's Lod Airport on May 30, 1972, in which...

In an article he published on April 26, 2018 in the daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Dr. 'Ali Muhammad Fakhro, Bahrain's former foreign minister and a board member of the Arab Anti-Corruption Organization, wrote that women in Arab and Muslim societies suffer discrimination due to backward...

On July 30, 2018, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), a think tank established by the Russian President, published an analysis, titled "Who to believe: Haley or Trump?," by Vyacheslav Kholodkov, head of the Center for CIS Countries Studies.
In the article, Khol...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

Gaza activist Ahmad Abu Rutema, spokesman for the Return March, said that "we have lost the battle for public opinion in the Return March," and that "there is nothing wrong with a tactical withdrawal" when the path becomes too costly. Speaking at a symposium titled "The Palestini...

Against the backdrop of the Canada-Saudi Arabia tension following the arrest in Saudi Arabia of human rights activists,[1] on August 8, 2018, Muhammad Al-Sa'ed, who writes in the Saudi daily 'Okaz, published an article harshly critical of Canada. He wrote that, following Hillary ...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7617 – Article In Saudi Daily: Canada Is Waging...

In the past few weeks alone, during our Summer 2018 Campaign, you have seen just some of the impact of MEMRI's work:
On July 24, Danish imam Mundhir Abdallah was indicted for calling for the murder of Jews in a 2017 sermon, which was translated and released by MEMRI....

Introduction
In recent years Egypt has been experiencing a severe economic crisis. This crisis came to a head in 2016, prompting the government to accept an IMF reform plan which involved eliminating subsidies and raising the cost of goods and services.[1] As part of the refo...

In an article titled "Rescue Your Descendants, Don't Avenge Your Ancestors" in the Saudi London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, the paper's editor-in-chief, Ghassan Charbel, wrote that instead of clinging to the glorious accomplishments in Muslim history, the Arabs should learn fr...

"Russia In The World" is a MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project review of Russia's geopolitical interests and areas of penetration. This installment will deal with Russian private military companies and their role in expanding Russia's influence..
The original image was tak...

Introduction
An examination of developments that can be expected in the Iran-U.S. confrontation requires first an understanding of the policy of U.S. President Donald Trump, both in general and in how this policy is reflected in his approach to Iran.
Trump's Policy
Pres...

On August 6, 2018, the Saudi-based Twitter account Infographic_ksa tweeted an image of an Air Canada aircraft that appeared to be heading towards the CN Tower in Toronto – in an apparent hint at the September 11, 2001 attacks – accompanied by the text in English: "Sticking one's ...

On August 6, 2018, the Iranian news agency Fars published statements by Gen. Naser Sha'bani, a top official of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), in which he noted that the regime of the Islamic Revolution had ordered the pro-Iran Ansar Allah (Houthi) militia in Ye...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: Ria.ru, July 30, 2018)
Trump is...

In a recent sermon at a Shiraz mosque, Iranian cleric Seyyed Mohammad Anjavinejad harshly criticized the Iranian regime. Denouncing regime officials for what he described as widespread corruption among their families, Anjavinejad said: "They robbed you and me. We have no idea... ...

Imam Sulaiman Jalloh, who delivers sermons in English at several mosques in the Washington, D.C. area, including the Loudon Islamic Center in Leesburg, Virginia, the Dar Al Noor mosque in Manassas, Virginia, and the Prince George's Muslim Association in Lanham, Maryland, said in ...

Ghazi Hamad, former deputy foreign minister in the Hamas government, said that "there is no religious evidence prohibiting negotiations with the occupation." "Personally, I do not oppose this option, but it must first be placed within a national framework," he said. Speaking at a...

Liberal Yemeni-Egyptian writer Dr. Elham Manea, who resides in Switzerland where she lectures on political science at the University of Zurich and is a member of Switzerland's Federal Commission for Women's Affairs, wrote an article published July 27, 2018 on the liberal Arab web...

The following report is now a complimentary offering from MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM). For JTTM subscription information, click here.
On July 20, 2018, the Telegram channel "Distance of a Month's Journey Media" published a book titled "Jihad Without Borde...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

On August 1, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control placed sanctions on Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül. This was done to pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government to release fro...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7605 – Copenhagen Imam Mundhir Abdallah...

In a Friday sermon, delivered on July 27, 2018 at the Al-Faruq Mosque in Copenhagen, Imam Mundhir Abdallah said that his March 31, 2017 sermon, for which he was recently indicted on charges of hate speech, was not about the Jews, but about Palestine (For the MEMRI TV translation ...

In recent weeks, the Qatari media has been slamming the Trump administration's efforts to advance a regional peace plan that has come to be known as the "Deal of the Century." Qatari media reports and articles about this plan have described it as serving Israel's interests while ...

Russia-NATO Update is a new monthly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest news on Russia-NATO relations from the Russian and East European media.
On July 17, the day after his summit meeting in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin, US President Don...

Former Kuwaiti information minister Sami Abdullatif Al-Nesf said that throughout history, the Palestinian cause has suffered because of the extremists. "Lands are regained through peace, not through war," he said. He criticized Jerusalem Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini for thwarting ...

As the Syrian regime army prepares to launch a campaign for the recapture of Idlib in northern Syria, the Chinese Ambassador to Damascus, Qi Qianjin, told the pro-regime daily Al-Watan on August 1, 2018 that the Chinese military would be willing to participate "in some way" ...

The Nasib border crossing between Syria and Jordan (also known as the Jaber-Nasib crossing) fell to Syrian opposition factions in 2015. Since then, the crossing has been closed, partly due to Jordanian concerns regarding the presence of terrorist organizations in southern Syria. ...

Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-Pakistani-politician, is set to become Pakistan's next prime minister.
In the Islamic world, you rarely find female Sufi mystics. Bushra Maneka, a 39-year-old divorcee, is a rare mystic and faith healer whom, among other such mystics, Imran Kh...

During his visit to the U.K. this month for the first Emerging Peacemakers Forum, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, Sheikh of Egypt's Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious institution, met with Queen Elizabeth II as well as with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at Windsor Castle, on July ...

Russia-NATO Update is a new monthly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest news on Russia-NATO relations from the Russian and East European media.
Putin Warns: NATO Should Consider The Consequences Of Adding Ukraine And Georgia To The Allian...

On July 25, 2018, the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked two Saudi tankers in the strait of Bab El-Mandeb in the Red Sea. In response to the attack, Saudi Arabia announced it was suspending shipments of oil via the strait "until maritime transit through Bab El-Mandeb is...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: Vitaly Podvitsky, Ria.ru, July 27, 2...

In response to U.S. President Trump's recent tweet to Iranian President Rouhani, IRGC Qods Force Commander General Qasem Soleimani warned "Trump the gambler" that "you may start the war, but we will be the ones to determine its end." In a speech delivered on July 26, 2018, in the...

In a July 17, 2018 speech in the Jordanian parliament, attorney Yahya Al-Saud, who chairs the parliament's Palestine Committee, announced that he intended to join the "Freedom Flotilla" protesting conditions in the Gaza Strip that had set out from Denmark in mid-May 2018. He adde...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Photo Of The Week
Johannesburg is hosting the 10th BRICS Summit...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

In an address streamed live on Facebook a year ago, on July 23, 2017, and discovered and translated by MEMRI following his July 24, 2018 indictment in Denmark for calling for the murder of Jews, Imam Mundhir Abdallah, of the Masjid Al-Faruq mosque in Copenhagen, said that "the fi...

Following a series of low-magnitude earthquakes felt in northern Israel and in neighboring countries in early July, Palestinian clerics, both Muslim and Christian, stated that some elements in Israel are acting to demolish Al-Aqsa and build the Jewish Temple in its place, and war...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7592 – Copenhagen Imam Mund...

On July 24, 2018, Danish imam Mundhir Abdallah, of the Al-Faruq mosque in Copenhagen, was indicted for calling for the murder of Jews in a Friday, March 31, 2017 sermon that was translated and released by MEMRI.
News reports from across Europe on the indictment credited ME...

The official Palestinian Authority TV channel broadcast a bio-documentary on President Mahmoud Abbas. The show presented his Ph.D. dissertation from the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies, claiming that he had "exposed the relations between the global Zionist organization and ...

On July 3, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that the Obama administration had given U.S. citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, among them government officials, as part of understandings in the bilateral nuclear talks. The issue of U.S. citizenship for Iranians was reported on i...

"Russia In The World" is a MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project review of Russia's geopolitical interests and areas of penetration. This installment will deal with Russia-Greece relations.
The original image was taken from Studiya 13's Facebook page.
In mid-July 2018, the ...

MEMRI TV recently translated and released excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered on December 15, 2017 by Imam Mohamed Tatai, formerly imam of the Mosquée Ennour in Toulouse and currently imam of the new Grand Mosque of Toulouse, in which he cited an antisemitic hadith.[1]
...

In an opinion piece published July 23, 2018 in the Saudi English-language daily Arab News, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Khalid bin Salman, called on the international community to adopt a unified and comprehensive strategy to confront the destabilizing behavior...

Yulia Sveshnikova, a research associate at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, wrote an article for Rbc.ru,[1] titled "Alarm in Tehran: Why Did Iran Eagerly Await the results of the Helsinki Summit" in which she argued that a reversal of roles has taken p...

Recently, there has been a discussion in Saudi Arabia about appointing women to roles connected to the religious establishment, such as in issuing fatwas and serving as religious judges (qadis).
In a Ramadan edition of his television program on Saudi Al-Majd TV, 'Abdallah Al-M...

Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been pressured to stop the allowances it has been paying to families of Palestinian martyrs, wounded, prisoners, and released prisoners since it was established, on the grounds that these payments e...

Calling the current Palestinian leadership "juvenile," Jordanian MP Muhammad Al-Zahrawi said that "according to the constitution, the West Bank belongs to Jordan" and that "all Jordanian lands must come under the Hashemite banner." His remarks came on July 18, 2018, during a spec...

In the recent days, Hizbullah officials have expressed satisfaction at the military gains of the Syrian regime, and boasted of Hizbullah's part in this. Hizbullah Executive Council chairman Hashem Safi Al-Din stated explicitly that the organization's fighters are still pres...

On July 13, 2018, the Qatari government daily Al-Sharq published what it claimed were exclusive statements made to the daily by German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on the margins of the recent NATO summit in Brussels. According to the report, von der Leyen lavished prais...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

Jordanian MP Huda Etoom said that her late octogenarian mother had had a single unfulfilled desire: "to don an explosives belt and blow herself up among the Zionist Jews." MP Etoom, who represents Jerash, made the comment during a special session of the parliamentary House of Rep...

Against the backdrop of the U.S. administration's announcements that it intends to level oil and banking sanctions against the Iranian regime, regime officials once again responded with vehement statements expressing their intention to prevent any country from shipping oil via th...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7577 – Iranian Regime Again T...

Former Islamic State (ISIS) member Nour Al-Din Al-Hatimi, a Moroccan who returned to his country after becoming disillusioned with the Jihad in Syria, explained the mindset of foreign ISIS recruits who traveled to Syria in order to establish the Caliphate. Interviewed by Egyptian...

Russian opinion-makers viewed the Trump-Putin meeting as positive for Russia.[1] The conservative media outlet Tsagrad.tv described the summit as a defeat for Trump, and as Moscow's victory. According to Tsagrad.tv, the summit will have as a direct consequence: the weakening of t...

On June 28, 2018, MEMRI released its translated clip of a sermon delivered in Arabic by Mohamed Tatai, then-imam of the Mosquée Ennour in Toulouse, France and currently leading imam at the newly inaugurated Grand Mosque of Toulouse, as well as president, since 2005, of the Ci...

Recently, the Syrian army and the forces that back it, with the support of the Russians, managed to take control of a large part of the Dar'a governorate in southern Syria. This occurred following a military campaign against Syrian opposition factions that began on June 19, 2018....

On July 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump met in Helsinki.[1] In Russia, commentators and policy makers welcomed the summit and stressed the "good" atmosphere that prevailed during the talks. Russian FM Sergey Lavrov ebulliently defined the summit...

In an article published July 15, 2018 in the Saudi government daily Al-Yawm, Saudi journalist Sukina Meshekhis called on the Arab countries to take bold steps, including certain concessions, in order to advance peace with Israel. She wrote that peace is a supreme human aim for wh...

In his July 15, 2018 column in the Syrian daily Al-Watan, which is close to the Assad regime, Firas 'Aziz Al-Dib took the unusual line of criticizing Iran, a major Syria ally, for statements made by senior Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati. Velayati, an international affairs ad...

Against the backdrop of the last few months' ongoing public protests in Iran against the leaders of the regime of the Islamic Revolution over its economic and political policies, the regime has acted to increase its control of the public and stepped up its attempts to prevent Wes...

On July 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump met in Helsinki. As noted by Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov, the timing of the meeting was fortuitous for Putin, who had overseen a successful World Cup. Trump arrived in Helsinki following a fractious NAT...

In an antisemitic column published January 10, 2018 in the Kuwaiti Al-Anba daily, Bassem Al-Shati, who is also a lecturer at the Religious Faith and Preaching department at Kuwait University, quoted extensively from the Quran to prove, he said, that the Jews are cheating, corrupt...

Russian commentator Valery Shiryaev speculated on the possibility of another Middle East war, in an article published for Novaya Gazeta.
On July 4, Ismail Kowsari, an official representative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Teheran will completely cut off th...

Islamic State (ISIS) supporters and other jihadis from around the world are using the Austin, Texas-based communication application Zello for planning and executing terrorist attacks in the U.S., the U.K., European countries, Turkey, and elsewhere around the world. On January 30,...

Following her recent visit to Israel, Dr. Elham Manea, a Yemeni-Egyptian writer, human rights activist and women's rights activist who resides in Switzerland, began publishing a series of articles titled "If We Are Not The Emissaries of Peace, Who Will Be?" In the series, posted ...

Russia-NATO Update is a review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest news on Russia-NATO relations from the Russian and East European media.
Russian PM Medvedev: Georgia's Membership In NATO Would Be An Absolutely Irresponsible Position And A Thre...

Interviewed by Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV channel, Sheikh Omar Nofal, a judge in Gaza's shari'a appeals court extolled the six virtues of martyrdom, asking: "How can anyone cling to this world after hearing all of these great rewards?" Nofal said that Jihad is "an individual duty incumben...

On August 12, 2018, Fatah's official Facebook page posted a photo of Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto and information about him. Okamoto was one of three terrorists, members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA), who carried out an attack in Israel's Lod Airport on May 30, 1972, in which...

In an article he published on April 26, 2018 in the daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Dr. 'Ali Muhammad Fakhro, Bahrain's former foreign minister and a board member of the Arab Anti-Corruption Organization, wrote that women in Arab and Muslim societies suffer discrimination due to backward...

On July 30, 2018, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), a think tank established by the Russian President, published an analysis, titled "Who to believe: Haley or Trump?," by Vyacheslav Kholodkov, head of the Center for CIS Countries Studies.
In the article, Khol...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7617 – Article In Saudi Daily: Canada Is Waging...

Gaza activist Ahmad Abu Rutema, spokesman for the Return March, said that "we have lost the battle for public opinion in the Return March," and that "there is nothing wrong with a tactical withdrawal" when the path becomes too costly. Speaking at a symposium titled "The Palestini...

Against the backdrop of the Canada-Saudi Arabia tension following the arrest in Saudi Arabia of human rights activists,[1] on August 8, 2018, Muhammad Al-Sa'ed, who writes in the Saudi daily 'Okaz, published an article harshly critical of Canada. He wrote that, following Hillary ...

In the past few weeks alone, during our Summer 2018 Campaign, you have seen just some of the impact of MEMRI's work:
On July 24, Danish imam Mundhir Abdallah was indicted for calling for the murder of Jews in a 2017 sermon, which was translated and released by MEMRI....

In an article titled "Rescue Your Descendants, Don't Avenge Your Ancestors" in the Saudi London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, the paper's editor-in-chief, Ghassan Charbel, wrote that instead of clinging to the glorious accomplishments in Muslim history, the Arabs should learn fr...

"Russia In The World" is a MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project review of Russia's geopolitical interests and areas of penetration. This installment will deal with Russian private military companies and their role in expanding Russia's influence..
The original image was tak...

On August 6, 2018, the Saudi-based Twitter account Infographic_ksa tweeted an image of an Air Canada aircraft that appeared to be heading towards the CN Tower in Toronto – in an apparent hint at the September 11, 2001 attacks – accompanied by the text in English: "Sticking one's ...

On August 6, 2018, the Iranian news agency Fars published statements by Gen. Naser Sha'bani, a top official of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), in which he noted that the regime of the Islamic Revolution had ordered the pro-Iran Ansar Allah (Houthi) militia in Ye...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: Ria.ru, July 30, 2018)
Trump is...

In a recent sermon at a Shiraz mosque, Iranian cleric Seyyed Mohammad Anjavinejad harshly criticized the Iranian regime. Denouncing regime officials for what he described as widespread corruption among their families, Anjavinejad said: "They robbed you and me. We have no idea... ...

Imam Sulaiman Jalloh, who delivers sermons in English at several mosques in the Washington, D.C. area, including the Loudon Islamic Center in Leesburg, Virginia, the Dar Al Noor mosque in Manassas, Virginia, and the Prince George's Muslim Association in Lanham, Maryland, said in ...

Ghazi Hamad, former deputy foreign minister in the Hamas government, said that "there is no religious evidence prohibiting negotiations with the occupation." "Personally, I do not oppose this option, but it must first be placed within a national framework," he said. Speaking at a...

Liberal Yemeni-Egyptian writer Dr. Elham Manea, who resides in Switzerland where she lectures on political science at the University of Zurich and is a member of Switzerland's Federal Commission for Women's Affairs, wrote an article published July 27, 2018 on the liberal Arab web...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7605 – Copenhagen Imam Mundhir Abdallah...

On August 1, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control placed sanctions on Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül. This was done to pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government to release fro...

In a Friday sermon, delivered on July 27, 2018 at the Al-Faruq Mosque in Copenhagen, Imam Mundhir Abdallah said that his March 31, 2017 sermon, for which he was recently indicted on charges of hate speech, was not about the Jews, but about Palestine (For the MEMRI TV translation ...

Russia-NATO Update is a new monthly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest news on Russia-NATO relations from the Russian and East European media.
On July 17, the day after his summit meeting in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin, US President Don...

As the Syrian regime army prepares to launch a campaign for the recapture of Idlib in northern Syria, the Chinese Ambassador to Damascus, Qi Qianjin, told the pro-regime daily Al-Watan on August 1, 2018 that the Chinese military would be willing to participate "in some way" ...

Former Kuwaiti information minister Sami Abdullatif Al-Nesf said that throughout history, the Palestinian cause has suffered because of the extremists. "Lands are regained through peace, not through war," he said. He criticized Jerusalem Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini for thwarting ...

The Nasib border crossing between Syria and Jordan (also known as the Jaber-Nasib crossing) fell to Syrian opposition factions in 2015. Since then, the crossing has been closed, partly due to Jordanian concerns regarding the presence of terrorist organizations in southern Syria. ...

Russia-NATO Update is a new monthly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest news on Russia-NATO relations from the Russian and East European media.
Putin Warns: NATO Should Consider The Consequences Of Adding Ukraine And Georgia To The Allian...

Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-Pakistani-politician, is set to become Pakistan's next prime minister.
In the Islamic world, you rarely find female Sufi mystics. Bushra Maneka, a 39-year-old divorcee, is a rare mystic and faith healer whom, among other such mystics, Imran Kh...

During his visit to the U.K. this month for the first Emerging Peacemakers Forum, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, Sheikh of Egypt's Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious institution, met with Queen Elizabeth II as well as with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby at Windsor Castle, on July ...

On July 25, 2018, the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen attacked two Saudi tankers in the strait of Bab El-Mandeb in the Red Sea. In response to the attack, Saudi Arabia announced it was suspending shipments of oil via the strait "until maritime transit through Bab El-Mandeb is...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Cartoon Of The Week
(Source: Vitaly Podvitsky, Ria.ru, July 27, 2...

In response to U.S. President Trump's recent tweet to Iranian President Rouhani, IRGC Qods Force Commander General Qasem Soleimani warned "Trump the gambler" that "you may start the war, but we will be the ones to determine its end." In a speech delivered on July 26, 2018, in the...

In a July 17, 2018 speech in the Jordanian parliament, attorney Yahya Al-Saud, who chairs the parliament's Palestine Committee, announced that he intended to join the "Freedom Flotilla" protesting conditions in the Gaza Strip that had set out from Denmark in mid-May 2018. He adde...

Russia This Week is a weekly review by the MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project, covering the latest Russia-related news and analysis from media in Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
Photo Of The Week
Johannesburg is hosting the 10th BRICS Summit...

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, ...

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7592 – Copenhagen Imam Mund...

In an address streamed live on Facebook a year ago, on July 23, 2017, and discovered and translated by MEMRI following his July 24, 2018 indictment in Denmark for calling for the murder of Jews, Imam Mundhir Abdallah, of the Masjid Al-Faruq mosque in Copenhagen, said that "the fi...

Following a series of low-magnitude earthquakes felt in northern Israel and in neighboring countries in early July, Palestinian clerics, both Muslim and Christian, stated that some elements in Israel are acting to demolish Al-Aqsa and build the Jewish Temple in its place, and war...

The official Palestinian Authority TV channel broadcast a bio-documentary on President Mahmoud Abbas. The show presented his Ph.D. dissertation from the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies, claiming that he had "exposed the relations between the global Zionist organization and ...

On July 24, 2018, Danish imam Mundhir Abdallah, of the Al-Faruq mosque in Copenhagen, was indicted for calling for the murder of Jews in a Friday, March 31, 2017 sermon that was translated and released by MEMRI.
News reports from across Europe on the indictment credited ME...

"Russia In The World" is a MEMRI Russian Media Studies Project review of Russia's geopolitical interests and areas of penetration. This installment will deal with Russia-Greece relations.
The original image was taken from Studiya 13's Facebook page.
In mid-July 2018, the ...

On July 3, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that the Obama administration had given U.S. citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, among them government officials, as part of understandings in the bilateral nuclear talks. The issue of U.S. citizenship for Iranians was reported on i...

MEMRI TV recently translated and released excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered on December 15, 2017 by Imam Mohamed Tatai, formerly imam of the Mosquée Ennour in Toulouse and currently imam of the new Grand Mosque of Toulouse, in which he cited an antisemitic hadith.[1]
...

Recently, there has been a discussion in Saudi Arabia about appointing women to roles connected to the religious establishment, such as in issuing fatwas and serving as religious judges (qadis).
In a Ramadan edition of his television program on Saudi Al-Majd TV, 'Abdallah Al-M...

In an opinion piece published July 23, 2018 in the Saudi English-language daily Arab News, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Khalid bin Salman, called on the international community to adopt a unified and comprehensive strategy to confront the destabilizing behavior...

Yulia Sveshnikova, a research associate at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, wrote an article for Rbc.ru,[1] titled "Alarm in Tehran: Why Did Iran Eagerly Await the results of the Helsinki Summit" in which she argued that a reversal of roles has taken p...

Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been pressured to stop the allowances it has been paying to families of Palestinian martyrs, wounded, prisoners, and released prisoners since it was established, on the grounds that these payments e...

Calling the current Palestinian leadership "juvenile," Jordanian MP Muhammad Al-Zahrawi said that "according to the constitution, the West Bank belongs to Jordan" and that "all Jordanian lands must come under the Hashemite banner." His remarks came on July 18, 2018, during a spec...

In the recent days, Hizbullah officials have expressed satisfaction at the military gains of the Syrian regime, and boasted of Hizbullah's part in this. Hizbullah Executive Council chairman Hashem Safi Al-Din stated explicitly that the organization's fighters are still pres...

On July 13, 2018, the Qatari government daily Al-Sharq published what it claimed were exclusive statements made to the daily by German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on the margins of the recent NATO summit in Brussels. According to the report, von der Leyen lavished prais...

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Former Islamic State (ISIS) member Nour Al-Din Al-Hatimi, a Moroccan who returned to his country after becoming disillusioned with the Jihad in Syria, explained the mindset of foreign ISIS recruits who traveled to Syria in order to establish the Caliphate. Interviewed by Egyptian...

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*MEMRI REPORTS
Special Dispatch No. 7577 – Iranian Regime Again T...

Jordanian MP Huda Etoom said that her late octogenarian mother had had a single unfulfilled desire: "to don an explosives belt and blow herself up among the Zionist Jews." MP Etoom, who represents Jerash, made the comment during a special session of the parliamentary House of Rep...

Against the backdrop of the U.S. administration's announcements that it intends to level oil and banking sanctions against the Iranian regime, regime officials once again responded with vehement statements expressing their intention to prevent any country from shipping oil via th...

Russian opinion-makers viewed the Trump-Putin meeting as positive for Russia.[1] The conservative media outlet Tsagrad.tv described the summit as a defeat for Trump, and as Moscow's victory. According to Tsagrad.tv, the summit will have as a direct consequence: the weakening of t...

On June 28, 2018, MEMRI released its translated clip of a sermon delivered in Arabic by Mohamed Tatai, then-imam of the Mosquée Ennour in Toulouse, France and currently leading imam at the newly inaugurated Grand Mosque of Toulouse, as well as president, since 2005, of the Ci...

On July 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump met in Helsinki.[1] In Russia, commentators and policy makers welcomed the summit and stressed the "good" atmosphere that prevailed during the talks. Russian FM Sergey Lavrov ebulliently defined the summit...

In an article published July 15, 2018 in the Saudi government daily Al-Yawm, Saudi journalist Sukina Meshekhis called on the Arab countries to take bold steps, including certain concessions, in order to advance peace with Israel. She wrote that peace is a supreme human aim for wh...

In his July 15, 2018 column in the Syrian daily Al-Watan, which is close to the Assad regime, Firas 'Aziz Al-Dib took the unusual line of criticizing Iran, a major Syria ally, for statements made by senior Iranian official Ali Akbar Velayati. Velayati, an international affairs ad...

Against the backdrop of the last few months' ongoing public protests in Iran against the leaders of the regime of the Islamic Revolution over its economic and political policies, the regime has acted to increase its control of the public and stepped up its attempts to prevent Wes...

On July 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump met in Helsinki. As noted by Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov, the timing of the meeting was fortuitous for Putin, who had overseen a successful World Cup. Trump arrived in Helsinki following a fractious NAT...

In an antisemitic column published January 10, 2018 in the Kuwaiti Al-Anba daily, Bassem Al-Shati, who is also a lecturer at the Religious Faith and Preaching department at Kuwait University, quoted extensively from the Quran to prove, he said, that the Jews are cheating, corrupt...

Following a series of low-magnitude earthquakes felt in Israel and neighboring countries in early July, Kamal Zakarneh, a columnist for the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour, wrote that the quakes may have been caused by the underground testing of nuclear or other weapons that Israel is...

Russian commentator Valery Shiryaev speculated on the possibility of another Middle East war, in an article published for Novaya Gazeta.
On July 4, Ismail Kowsari, an official representative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that Teheran will completely cut off th...

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Cartoon Of The Week
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Introduction
In recent years Egypt has been experiencing a severe economic crisis. This crisis came to a head in 2016, prompting the government to accept an IMF reform plan which involved eliminating subsidies and raising the cost of goods and services.[1] As part of the refo...

Introduction
An examination of developments that can be expected in the Iran-U.S. confrontation requires first an understanding of the policy of U.S. President Donald Trump, both in general and in how this policy is reflected in his approach to Iran.
Trump's Policy
Pres...

In recent weeks, the Qatari media has been slamming the Trump administration's efforts to advance a regional peace plan that has come to be known as the "Deal of the Century." Qatari media reports and articles about this plan have described it as serving Israel's interests while ...

Recently, the Syrian army and the forces that back it, with the support of the Russians, managed to take control of a large part of the Dar'a governorate in southern Syria. This occurred following a military campaign against Syrian opposition factions that began on June 19, 2018....

By: N. Licht
The 2018 World Cup, held this summer in Russia, is addressed in many cartoons in the global media, including in the Arab world. Many of the cartoons in the Arab media express disappointment and criticism over the poor performance of the Arab teams, especially sinc...

Introduction
On April 11, 2018, on Capitol Hill, the chief of the U.S Capitol Police testified in a hearing that provided insight into terrorist threats to Washington, D.C. The locations and institutions threatened have included areas around Capitol Hill not far from the White...

Introduction
While U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to take active measures against Iran, the Iranian regime is already showing signs of economic and political collapse, although throughout the 40 years of its existence it has presented itself as a powerful regime that ben...

Introduction
In recent years, Jordan has been experiencing a grave and ongoing economic crisis that is steadily worsening due to the influx of Syrian refugees to the country and the diminishing of foreign aid. Jordanian King 'Abdallah addressed this in a June 4, 2018 meeting w...

Introduction
A campaign launched in the West Bank several weeks ago calls for lifting the sanctions that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has imposed on the Gaza Strip, which include the withholding of salaries from PA civil servants in Gaza and cutting the PA's payments to Isra...

Introduction
On May 20, 2018, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud 'Abbas, who is 83, was rushed to a Ramallah hospital following complications from middle ear surgery five days previously. The international Arab press reported that he had pneumonitis and a high fever,...

Introduction
In the months preceding the U.S. withdrawal from the JCPOA nuclear deal, Iranian regime officials have stated that they were prepared for this possibility, and some even spoke about an immediate resumption of uranium enrichment and of Iran's nuclear program. Howe...

Among the Saudi intellectuals, journalists and writers who have recently been expressing open support for Israel,[1] the voice of intellectual 'Abd Al-Hamid Al-Hakim was especially prominent. Al-Hakim, until recently the director of the Middle East Center for Strategic and L...

Introduction:
The mounting tension between Israel and Iran, which came to a head with Iran's firing of missiles at Israel from Syrian territory and Israel's counterattack on Iranian sites in that country, sparked a debate in Saudi Arabia regarding which side Saudis should supp...

Introduction
The U.S.'s withdrawal from the JCPOA is only one element in the Trump administration's new comprehensive strategy against Iran's Islamic Revolution, with all its elements – political, military, economic, and regional. The U.S.'s reinstatement of the economic sanct...

Introduction
In his May 8, 2018 speech, U.S. President Donald Trump turned the tables on Iran, on its European partners, and on supporters of the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) worldwide, when he announced that the U.S. was withdrawing from the agreement. Following this, Iran is no...

Introduction
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, could not be achieved until Iran was cleared of suspicions that it had worked on developing nuclear weapons. This was because earlier, in 2011, the International Atomic Energy Ag...

Ever since suspicions arose in 2002 that Iran has a military nuclear program – when the Mujahideen Khalq organization exposed that Iran was secretly enriching uranium without the consent or knowledge of the IAEA – the Iranian regime leaders, from both the ideological camp an...

According to reports in Western media, Britain, France, and Germany are agreeing with U.S. President Donald Trump that Iran's ballistic missile program and Iran's expansion in the region constitute a threat for the region and its security and stability.[1]
To date, Iran has fi...

In light of Israel's recent military operations against Iran's military expansion in Syria, comprising strikes against strategic Iranian and Syrian targets such as Iran-controlled airfields, missile bases, and drone bases, Iran now faces a strategic question: whether to respond t...

In recent weeks, there have been indications of a possible shift in Saudi Arabia's policy vis-à-vis Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and recognition of his regime. These indications have prompted various predictions regarding the possibility of normalization of Saudi-Syrian relat...

Al-Qaeda's Telegram presence has been largely maintained by Arabic-language channels such as Al-Qaeda's media wing Al-Sahab, the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), and channels belonging to Al-Qaeda's regional branches, such as Al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsul...

In advance of Iran's National Nuclear Technology Day, on April 9, this document focuses on a number of steps taken by the Iranian regime to maintain and further develop Iran's nuclear capabilities – steps that deviate from the framework of the JCPOA nuclear deal, and that in some...

On December 11, 2017, Iranian media and media affiliated with the resistance axis reported that Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Qods (Jerusalem) Force, had spoken on the phone with commanders of the military wings of both Hamas and P...

On January 30, 2018, the Syrian Congress of National Dialogue was held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. The conference, led by Russia, was part of that country's efforts to advance a political solution for the Syria crisis.
The week before the conference, on January 2...

Preface
Nearly 17 years after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent 9/11 Commission Report recommendations, a Telegram cryptocurrency will shatter all the lessons learned about terrorism financing, and will be used to fund terrorism worldwide. The recomme...

Faced with enormous pressure from the global coalition, and following its defeats on the battlefield, recently numerous Islamic State (ISIS) fighters who operated in Syria and Iraq have deserted. Some have returned to their families in Syria and Iraq. Others, from countries outsi...

Introduction
The presidential elections in Egypt, slated for March 26-28, 2018, are expected to result in a second term for President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi.[1] His almost inevitable win is the result of the stagnation in Egypt's political system, which has failed to produce ...

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In early March 2018, senior leaders of the Salafi-jihadi stream in the Ein Al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon ...

Introduction
In recent months, and especially ahead of Egypt's upcoming presidential elections, set for March 26-28, 2018, the Egyptian media has been experiencing upheavals and pressures that have caused it to significantly decrease its criticism of President 'Abd Al-Fattah A...

Introduction
In advance of Egypt's presidential elections, set for late March 2018, the Egyptian regime has been acting to thwart the candidacies of Egyptian public figures. This comes against the backdrop of its repression of opposition elements and its obstruction of regist...

Introduction
Egypt's presidential elections are scheduled for March 26-28, 2018. Only two months ahead of the elections, incumbent President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi announced that he would seek a second term in office. He made the announcement at a January 19, 2018 conference ...

Introduction
In July 2017, the Palestinian Authority (PA) schoolbooks for the 2017-18 school year were published. Some of the books are new, and some remained unchanged. An examination of the middle-school books for Islamic Education, some of which have been replaced, shows a ...

Introduction
The December 21, 2017 introduction, in the U.S. House of Representatives, of a bill calling on the government of Egypt to enact reforms ensuring that Egypt's Coptic Christians have "the same rights and opportunities as all other Egyptian citizens" and that it "end...

Introduction
On January 16, 2018, the government of Pakistan unveiled a fatwa ("Islamic decree"), which was described as the Pakistani "nation's unanimous declaration to counter extremism and end terrorism."[1] Media reports said that the fatwa was seconded by more than 1,...

Introduction
For years, Jordan has been in economic crisis, with a budget deficit and a large public debt. Most of the revenue for the budget comes from aid in the form of grants from its allies, primarily the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, but these have been reduced in recent years....

The cover page of the book Yehud Ki Chalees Bimariyan ("Forty Diseases Of The Jews").
This is a book review of Yehud Ki Chalees Bimariyan ("Forty Diseases Of The Jews"), authored by Maulana Masood Azhar, the emir of Pakistani jihadi organization Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), and p...

Introduction
On February 10, 2018, Iranian forces in Syria sent an Iranian attack drone across the border into Israeli airspace; the drone was downed by an Israeli army helicopter. Israel then bombed the base and the command and control vehicle that had launched the drone, and...

Introduction
Political elements in the West are framing the December 2017-January 2018 popular uprising in Iran as a clash of Iran's reformist and pragmatic camps – the latter led by Iranian President Hassan Rohani – with the Iranian regime's ideological circles. They have ad...

Introduction
On January 11, 2018, the Telegram channel of the jihadi organization in Syria Jaysh Al-Badiya ("The Desert Army") published a photo of some of its fighters and fighters from another jihadi organization in Syria, Jaysh Al-Malahem, en route to a battlefront in the s...

Introduction
On December 22, 2017, at the end of the eighth round of intra-Syrian talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, which focused on the topic of the ceasefire, the three countries sponsoring the talks – Iran, Russia and Turkey – announced that a national dialogue conference would ...

Introduction
The Iranian regime is attributing the December 2017-January 2018 popular uprising in the country to two main factors. One is the public's access to the West-based Internet, and the other is the involvement of Iran's enemies, who seek to bring down the Islamic revo...

Background
U.S. President Donald Trump's December 6, 2017, announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel evoked harsh reactions from both the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas. This was expressed in riots that took place in the West Bank with PA backing and ne...

After seven days of mass demonstrations across Iran, in major cities and with the participation of protestors who appear to be middle class, not only in smaller, far-flung cities with the participation of working class people, it can be said that the uprising has the following ch...

In September 2017, death threats appeared on social media against two liberal Jordanian journalists: Zuleikha Abu Risha and Basel Rafayeh, as well as against a parliament member from the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Dima Tahboub. These threats prompted a renewed debate about a phenom...

Recently, and especially since the announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, elements in the resistance axis, including Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Iran and Hizb...

Introduction
Sub-Saharan Africa – A Growing Concern For The U.S.
Recently, the U.S. has launched an aggressive campaign against ISIS-linked militants in Somalia. One United Nations expert also posited that ISIS in Somalia could pose a significant threat to the Somali gover...

The caption reads: "When Hadiya was brought from Kerala to Delhi and presented before the Supreme Court... Hadiya's religious dignity was worth seeing." (Image: Urdu.News18.com)
Introduction
In India and other countries, there exists a societal phenomenon: In cases of int...

Following U.S. President Donald Trump's December 6, 2017 announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, harsh criticism was heard in the Palestinian territories and in Jordan towards Saudi Arabia, which, according to various leaks, is promoting Trump's "deal of the centu...

Islamic clerics who addressed the event in Walthamstow, East London, on November 26, 2017.
Introduction
Will the UK become another Pakistan? The definitive answer is yes. The only question is when. In November of 2017, Islamists from the Sufi school of Islam laid siege t...

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Introduction
In recent weeks, the ongoing struggle between the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda for leadership of the gl...

Several weeks after the signing of the October 12, 2017 reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, the euphoria that had initially been felt on the Palestinian street, and even more so in political circles, seems to be waning, and there are increasing doubts as to the poss...

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On November 24, 2017, armed terrorists attacked the mosque in the village of Al-Rawdah, near Bir Al-'Abed in northern Sinai, ...

The achievements of the Syrian regime and its allies in southern Syria in recent months have sparked growing concern in Jordan about the increasing presence of pro-Iranian forces on the Syria-Jordan border. Jordan's King 'Abdallah II expressed this concern in September this year:...

Following the November 12, 2017 meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam, President Trump agreed to, and legitimized Iran's expansion in Syria, including the deployment of Iranian a...

Many supporters of the U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Hamas and its military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, have taken to Instagram to laud these groups' violent attacks, eulogize the attackers, and incite to further violence against Israelis. It appears that the m...

Introduction
At an October 31, 2017 press conference at the World Without Terrorism convention in Iran, Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), conveyed a message reassuring Europe in the matter of Iran's ballistic missiles. H...

In recent months, three large international fairs were held in Damascus, by means of which the Syrian regime sought to demonstrate its victory over its enemies and stress that the rebuilding of Syria has begun. The first and largest of the two was the 59th Damascus International ...

The issue of discrimination against Egypt's Coptic Christian minority has resurfaced recently in the Egyptian media. The renewed debate follows claims that the security forces, submitting to pressure by Islamist elements, are depriving Copts of their freedom of worship by repeate...

Introduction
All JCPOA supporters rely on the claim that "the agreement is working" and on the eight confirmations granted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Iran that it is in compliance with the agreement .
Reality, however, invalidates this cl...

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Sirajul Haq addresses a Khatm-e-Nabuwwat conference in Peshawar.
Introduction
During September-October 2017, a major controversy led by Islamic clerics in Pakistan arose after a law was amended to reform the country's elections. At issue was Form-A,...

Introduction
The Switzerland-based ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service, launched in 2013, says on its website that it is "the world's largest secure email service with millions of users";[1] it also advertises itself as "NSA-proof."[2]
Labeled by Forbes as ...

IRGC Commander 'Ali Jaafari: "Iran bears the banner of the fulfillment of God's promises. It has taken a historic turn, and today a new era of global developments is beginning... [This era] started with imposing significant defeats upon the camp of the Great Arrogance, America. W...

Introduction
For a few years now, Islamic State (ISIS) supporters and militants have been using Instagram to share both personal photos and official ISIS content.[1] On numerous occasions, Instagram has also been used by pro-ISIS accounts to broadcast threats.[2] In 2016, a n...

The decree issued September 26, 2017 by the Saudi King, which lifted the ban on women driving in the kingdom, sparked a storm of reactions in the government media and on Saudi social media accounts. The government media reported extensively on responses welcoming the decision, wh...

Introduction
After a decade of Hamas rule in Gaza, internal criticism from Hamas officials and former officials is on the rise. This criticism comes against the backdrop of the movement's regional isolation, the flagging economy, the decline in security and the suppression of ...

Introduction
Recently, Western officials and commentators who support the JCPOA began to address two issues related to the JCPOA that they themselves admit to be problems that must be addressed. However, these issues – Iran's development of long-range ballistic missiles, and ...

In the recent weeks, there have been clear signs of further rapprochement between Egypt and the Syrian regime, headed by Bashar Al-Assad, although Egyptian officials repeatedly stress that Egypt is not taking sides in the Syrian crisis. Since Egyptian President 'Abd Al-Fattah Al-...

Introduction
On September 9, 2017, Saudi Arabia announced that it was cutting off all dialogue with Qatar on the resolution of the intra-Gulf dispute.[1] The announcement came following a phone call between Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad...

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Introduction
WhatsApp, the most widely used mess...

Muslims offer Eid Al-Adha prayers at Jama Masjid, New Delhi (image: Newindianexpress.com).
Introduction
Throughout 1,400-plus years of Islam, numerous Islamic scholars, teachers, and others have attempted to comprehend Islam. Each of them makes their own assessment of wha...

Introduction
Top Iranian officials have stated in the past that Tehran is learning from the experience of North Korea in attempting to actualize aspirations for regional supremacy and gaining the status of a global nuclear power.
Iran has achieved both of these under the co...

Incidents in Jordan in the past few months have shed light on the authorities' and public's view of the LGBT community. In June 2017, Interior Minister Ghaleb Al-Zu'bi canceled a concert by the Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila, whose lead singer is openly gay. The concert was ca...

Former Kuwaiti Minister of Information Sami Abdullatif Al-Nesf said that one of the “chronic and hereditary diseases” from which Arab societies suffer “is that we have no problem with lies, deceit, and the use of falsification and fake media.” Comparing Arab culture to Western cu...

In an Alaan TV channel (UAE) report about European Jihadists fighting in Idlib, Syria, journalist Jenan Moussa said that they faced danger not only from the Syrian army, but from opposition factions who "want to get rid of the foreign Jihadists." However, one of the foreign fight...

On August 9, OTV aired a report on the Druze village of Rami, in south Syria, in the aftermath of an ISIS attack that left many dead. A wounded fighter showed the TV crew where the battle had taken place and said he had been hit by a sniper. A mother declared that she would shoot...

During a parliamentary session in Gaza, Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal recited at length quotes from the Quran, vilifying the Jews. "We do not have time to list their abominations, which merited their transformation into apes and pigs," he added, saying that due to these faul...

Interviewed by Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV channel, Sheikh Omar Nofal, a judge in Gaza’s Shari’a appeals court extolled the six virtues of martyrdom, asking: “How can anyone cling to this world after hearing all of these great rewards?” Nofal said that Jihad is “an individual duty inc...

MEMRI's Director of Reform in the Muslim World Mansour Al-Hadj discussed the recent arrests of human rights activists in Saudi Arabia. Al-Hadj said that the lack of political reform under Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman has disappointed those who were hopeful abou...

Against the backdrop of the political crisis between Saudi Arabia and Canada, commentators on the Saudi 24 network launched an attack on Canada's human rights record, especially with regard to Canada's indigenous people. They "are being dispersed and killed," said Saudi jour...

Mauritanian cleric Muhammad Al-Hassan Ould Al-Dadou Al-Shanqiti recounted the antisemitic hadith of the "Prophecy of the Rock and the Tree" and said that on Judgment Day, "The Jews from all over the land will gather around the Antichrist... and the Muslims will kill them." Al-Sha...

Gaza activist Ahmad Abu Rutema, spokesman for the Return March, said that "we have lost the battle for public opinion in the Return March," and that "there is nothing wrong with a tactical withdrawal" when the path becomes too costly. Speaking at a symposium titled "The Palestini...

Ghazi Hamad, former deputy foreign minister in the Hamas government, said that "there is no religious evidence prohibiting negotiations with the occupation." "Personally, I do not oppose this option, but it must first be placed within a national framework," he said. Speaking at a...

Imam Sulaiman Jalloh, who delivers sermons in English at several mosques in the Washington, D.C. area, including the Loudon Islamic Center in Leesburg, Virginia, the Dar Al Noor mosque in Manassas, Virginia, and the Prince George's Muslim Association in Lanham, Maryland, said in ...

Iranian cleric Seyyed Mohammad Anjavinejad recently delivered a sermon in a mosque in Shiraz in which he leveled harsh criticism against the Iranian regime. Denouncing the regime officials for what he described as widespread corruption among their families, Anjavinejad said: "The...

Abdul Samee' Al-'Arabeed, Professor of Quranic Studies at Al-Aqsa University, said that according to the Quran, "the Jews are behind every conspiracy" and that the Quran warns us and teaches us "how to deal with this human garbage." He was speaking on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV on July 19...

The Russian naval forces stationed at Tartus, Syria, conducted maneuvers on July 30 to mark Russian Naval Day, in the presence of Syrian and Russian commanders and Syrian government officials. General Hassan Hassan, Head of the Political Bureau in the Syrian Army, declared that "...

In a Friday sermon, delivered on July 27, 2018 at the Al-Faruq Mosque in Copenhagen, Imam Mundhir Abdallah said that his March 31, 2017 sermon, for which he was recently indicted on charges of hate speech, was not about the Jews, but about Palestine (For the MEMRI TV translation ...

On July 28, Firqat Al-Ghuraba (the Foreigners' Brigade), a group of foreign fighters, mostly French-speaking, in Syria, aligned with Al-Qaeda, released a new video in French, presented as the first episode of a series titled "In the Skin of a Mujahid." The video shows the group's...

Former Kuwaiti Minister of Information Sami Abdullatif Al-Nesf said that throughout history, the Palestinian cause has suffered because of the extremists. "Lands are regained through peace, not through war," he said. He criticized the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin Al-Husseini for ...

At a ceremony held in Ramallah on July 23, 2018, to honor Palestinian prisoners and "martyrs," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said: "If we had one single penny left, we would spend it on the families of the martyrs and the prisoners." After awarding medals and decorations to...

In response to U.S. President Trump's recent tweet to Iranian President Rouhani, IRGC Qods Force Commander General Qasem Soleimani warned "Trump the gambler" that "you may start the war, but we will be the ones to determine its end." In a speech delivered on July 26, 2018, in the...

Al-Manar TV interviewed residents of the Al-Fuaa and Kafriya villages, near Idlib, Syria, after their evacuation to a displacement center in Aleppo. An armed young man saluted Hassan Nasrallah and Bashar Al-Assad and declared: "Allah willing, we shall return and liberate every in...

Copenhagen Imam Mundhir Abdallah said, in an address streamed live on Facebook on July 23, 2017, that "the final solution to the problem of the Levant – after the establishment of the Caliphate and the elimination of the Jewish entity – will be through the conquest of Europe." "E...

The official Palestinian Authority TV channel broadcast a bio-documentary on President Mahmoud Abbas. The show presented his Ph.D. dissertation from the Russian Institute of Oriental Studies, claiming that he had "exposed the relations between the global Zionist organization and ...

Egyptian actress Nadia El Gendy said that social media networks were "a Jewish industry, aimed at destroying countries." She made the assertion during an interview on the Egyptian ON TV channel on July 13.
Nadia El Gendy: "[Social media] has become a great danger."
Intervi...

On July 18, Jordanian MP Ghazi Al-Hawmlah made statements deemed offensive to Queen Rania of Jordan during a special session of the parliamentary House of Representatives, which had convened to deliberate the government's policy statement. Al-Hawmlah said that he was unaware of a...

Dr. Mohamed Hegazy, former Egyptian ambassador to Germany, said that the Rothschild family, along with other powerful Jewish families in the U.S., control financial institutions and exert influence on the media worldwide and in politics. "It was these families that exerted pressu...

Tunisian Parliamentary VP Abdelfattah Mourou said that the Arab nation is backward, ignorant, and "oblivious to reality," comparing it to the West, which managed to overcome its hostilities after WWII and form the nucleus for the European community. This is driven by "the power o...

Introduction pending
This transcript was prepared from the original English subtitles of the video.
Narrator: "Phrases mixed with the dust of death. American figures transferred to hospitals immediately after receiving messages from an anonymous. It is a silent disaster... ...

Calling the current Palestinian leadership "juvenile," Jordanian MP Muhammad Al-Zahrawi said that "according to the constitution, the West Bank belongs to Jordan" and that "all Jordanian lands must come under the Hashemite banner." His remarks came on July 18 during a special ses...

Syrian MP Khaled Abboud said that the Russians "do not have the Iranians and the Syrians in their pocket" and that they cannot speak on their behalf when they talk with the Israelis. Speaking on the Syrian Al-Ikhbariya TV on July 15, he also denied reports that the Iranian army h...

Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade Raed Khoury called to legalize and grow cannabis instead of the failing tobacco crops. Khoury, interviewed on Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV on July 13, said that the legalization of cannabis and its growth for medicinal purposes would yield hundre...

Hamas official Talal Nassar said that his organization would never accept Trump's "Deal of the Century" "even if we are turned into ashes and the entire Palestinian people is buried underground." He stressed that the Palestinian resistance was "fully prepared" for a confrontation...

Hamas Political Bureau member Fathi Hammad, former Hamas minister of the interior, gave an address at a July 12 rally in Gaza, in which he said that "the cleansing of Palestine of the filth of the Jews, and their uprooting from it" would happen by 2022. "The second thing is the e...

In a recent episode of the "Ask a Sister" Q&A Islamic show, a viewer in the West asked scholar Maseeha Saloojee whether she recommends making hijra to Syria and joining the Jihad in the current climate. Saloojee responded that because of all the different groups in Syria, "it...

On Al-Quds Day 2018, American imam and Quran scholar Muhammad Al Asi gave a sermon in Washington D.C., in which he said that the Zionist lobby in the U.S. was probably stronger than the IDF, the Mossad, and the Israeli government combined and called the U.S. administration "the p...

Jordanian MP Huda Etoom said that her late octogenarian mother had had a single unfulfilled desire: "to don an explosives belt and blow herself up among the Zionist Jews." MP Etoom, who represents Jerash, made the comment during a special session of the parliamentary House of Rep...

Kuwaiti analyst Nasser Al-Masri, a member of the Arab Union for Sustainable Development and Environment, warned that Iran is "a strategic enemy of the Arab and Islamic nation" and that in addition to the IRGC, the Iranian army, and the various popular militias, there were pro-Ira...

Former ISIS member Nour Al-Din Al-Hatimi, a Moroccan who returned to his country after becoming disillusioned with the Jihad in Syria, explained the mindset of foreign ISIS recruits who traveled to Syria in order to establish the Caliphate. Interviewed by Egyptian-German scholar ...

Speaking on the official Palestinian Authority TV channel, commentator Tawfiq Abu Shomar said that when an Israeli soldier is killed in battle, he is portrayed as a civilian, with the press talking about his wife and little girl, whereas after a Palestinian child is killed by an ...

At the signing of the Cape Accord in Cape Town, former South African Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool gave an address in which he celebrated the golden age of Islam in Andalusia. Rasool talked about the religious tolerance, scientific advancements, and cultural prosperity th...

A Russian instructor training militants near Idlib, Syria, was interviewed by OGN Media in a video released on social media networks on July 14. The instructor, who belongs to a "storming military unit" established in 2016 to help rebels in their fight against the Assad regime, s...

Speaking on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV, Islamic cleric Salah Nour cited the antisemitic hadith according to which the Muslims would fight the Jews on Judgment Day, and the trees and stones would give up the Jews hiding behind them. He praised the "virtue" of Jihad, and said: "Islam will p...

Dr. Ashraf Nusairat delivered a sermon at the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Chicago, in which he said that the Muslims were forsaking the law of Allah in favor of the man-made laws of their countries. "All this is happening... because we love this world more than we love Allah and Isla...

Palestinian cleric Khaled Al-Maghrabi delivered an address at Al-Aqsa Mosque, in which he said that the fire engine was invented by a Jew in order extort the owners of burning homes to sell their property on the cheap. "If you expect Satan to do something good... know that his in...

According to an Algerian news bulletin, the Grand Mosque of Paris "denounced the rhetoric" of Imam Mohamed Tatai, whose use of an antisemitic hadith in a December 15 sermon delivered at the Mosquée Ennour in Toulouse was exposed by MEMRI, leading to a public outcry (see MEMRI TV ...

In a July 7 press conference, Algerian Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments Mohamed Issa defended Imam Mohamed Tatai of the Mosquée Ennour, Toulouse, who is at the center of a heated public debate over his use of an antisemitic hadith in a Friday sermon, delivered at the&...

Mohamed Tatai, Imam of the new Grand Mosque of Toulouse and formerly Imam of the Mosquée Ennour in Toulouse, issued an apology in the wake of the public outcry that emerged following MEMRI's translation of a sermon, in which he cited the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad that s...

In a Friday sermon delivered in August 2017 at the Masjidul Quds in Cape Town, South Africa, Moulana Ihsaan Hendricks, Director of Al Quds Foundation SA, said that the Jews have no right to the Western Wall and that "in 1967, we lost the Wall of Al-Buraq... an integral part of th...

A Syrian army colonel, interviewed in south Syria where he was participating in the military campaign, said that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia were trying to divert them from their goal. "Our eyes are set on Palestine," he said. "Right now, we are fighting proxies. We are fighting th...

'Azzam Al-Ahmad, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and of the PLO Executive Committee, said that Hamas has "hijacked" Gaza against the will of its people. He called upon the people of Gaza: "Just as you wage an Intifada against the occupation, and perform acts of heroism in...

U.K.-based cleric and lecturer Sheikh Haytham Tamim complained about the use of the new video technology – the VAR system – in the refereeing of the World Cup, saying that it discriminated against weak countries. In a Friday sermon, titled "What can we learn from the FIFA World C...

French-Algerian philosopher and researcher of Islamic thought Razika Adnani said that various Islamic rulings based on the Quran – such as the punishments for stealing and for slavery – had been abolished over history in order to adapt to the circumstances of the times. She sugge...

Egyptian Islamist lawyer Muntassir Al-Zayyat said that "all the political forces in Egypt – left, pan-Arabs, and Nasserists – applauded Sadat's assassination," and so did the people on the street, whom we saw "handing out candy and chocolate, to celebrate the killing of Sadat." S...

Following MEMRI's translation of a Friday sermon by Toulouse Imam Mohamed Tatai, in which he cited an antisemitic hadith, the Grande Mosquee de Toulouse posted a new video on YouTube, on July 5, in which Imam Tatai, formerly imam of the Mosquée Ennour and currently imam of the ne...

Shi'ite scholar Assad Qassir, a professor at Qom Hawza, said that the goal was "to establish a Zionist empire from the Nile to the Euphrates, and from there, to take control over the Islamic world in its entirety." Thus, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, and all of Africa would be lost, ...

Mahmoud Al-Habbash, advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, gave an address on the official Palestinian Authority TV channel, in which he complained about the restrictions on access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and said: "Is this or is this not the Inquisition? It is a...

Nabil Hilmi, former dean of law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq, Egypt, said in a recent TV interview: "We all know that it is the Jews who control the money and the media." Hilmi, who was speaking on Egypt's Channel 2 on June 23, further said that: "They also [wanted] a gateway ...

Speaking at a conference held by the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights, Egyptian-German scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad called to stop trying to please the Islamists and said that "whoever wants to embrace the heritage, along with its representatives and theoreticians, and to inco...

In a 2015 Friday sermon at the Grande Mosquée Ennour in Toulouse, Imam Mohamed Tatai said: "Along came the events of 9/11... We know, and the entire world knows, that there were fabrications." The sermon was posted on the Grande Mosquée de Toulouse YouTube channel on July 3, 2015...

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A delegation of professors from La Sapienza University of Rome visited Lebanon and met with Sheikh Ali Rizq, Head of the Foreign Relations Department of Hizbullah, according to a report broadcast by Al-Manar TV on June 30. Delegation head Dr. Rosella Castellano said that they had...

Footage posted on Iranian social media accounts on June 30 shows scenes of the protests on the streets of Khorramshahr. In the footage, the shooting of a man, who lies dead in the street, is blamed on the police, and citizens allege that the police attack shops and break their wi...

In a June 13 TV interview, Saudi journalist Mishal Al-Sudairy recounted the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, from Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, who allied himself with Hitler in WWII, through his successor Ahmad Al-Shukeiri, who "lived his entire life in five-star hote...

Egyptian TV host and former MP Tawfiq Okasha made several antisemitic addresses on his show on Assema TV, stating that the Jews rule the world by taking "the throne of the world economy as well as the throne of the sciences of the world" and controlling the media, according to "a...

Shiite Iraqi cleric Yassin Al-Musawi said in a recent TV interview that Saudi Arabia, which it called "our kindhearted neighboring country... that meek and calm kingdom that wants only what's best for us," sends us suicide bombers on a daily basis. "One day they send us ISIS, ano...

Former Jordanian MP Laith Shubeilat criticized King Abdullah, saying that a handful of people were determining the fate of Jordan, without anybody knowing what is going on. "He is pulling all the strings by himself, and I doubt that he can withstand the [American] pressure. How c...

In a Saudi 24 TV interview, Jordanian journalist Yousef Alawnah compared his incarceration in Israel to prisons in the Arab world and said that he was ashamed by the comparison. Alawnah recounted that he had served 30 months in an Israeli prison for smuggling explosives, adding t...

Jaafar Al-Husseini, spokesman for the Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades, said that "we have been on Syrian soil since 2013, in coordination with the Syrian Arab Army" and that "we have engaged in battle and have had dozens of martyrs." Interviewed on Mayadeen TV on June 19, Al-Husseini fu...

In a Friday sermon delivered at the Lala Pasha Mosque in Damascus on June 22, Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Malla said that the World Cup was part of a plot, outlined in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, to distract the Arabs and the Muslims from the defiling of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and t...

Footage posted on social media on June 25 showed protesters in various locations in Tehran marching and shouting slogans like “No to Gaza, no to Lebanon! I will give my life to Iran!" and "Death to the dictator." In one demonstration, the protesters shouted "Our enemy is here! It...

Iraqi journalist Mahmoud Al-Hashemi said that the Jews had been "vomited by the wheel of history," that they had become "a burden on Europe – and indeed, on planet Earth as a whole," and that Hitler had slaughtered them and "sent them to the grinder" because they were using the b...